The PML-N has appointed ministers for the slots that fell vacant after the resignation of PPP ministers in Punjab. LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leadership assigned the departments headed previously by PPP ministers to three advisers and four ministers on Thursday. Meanwhile, members of the Unification Bloc, fearing a split in the bloc, […]
ISLAMABAD: A sub-committee of the federal cabinet proposed regularising all daily wages and contract (DWC) employees of the National Highway Authority (NHA) on Thursday at a meeting that was held to review the issue of NHAÂ’s DWC employees’ regularisation. Committee members decided to regularise the DWC employees after being briefed about regularisation of DWC employees […]
LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) former senior minister Raja Riaz Ahmad has been made the opposition leader in Punjab, and an official statement regarding it has been issued by the provincial assembly secretary, Maqsood Ahmad Malik, as per the directions of Speaker Rana Iqbal Ahmad Khan. The notification for leader of opposition number PAP/Legis-1 […]
By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: Former chief justice Abdul threw himself at the mercy of the Supreme Court on Thursday by saying sorry and showing repentance for having taken oath under the Provisional Constitution Order promulgated by former president Pervez Musharraf in 2007. Justice Sayed Zahid Hussain, one of the nine judges facing contempt of court […]
ISLAMABAD: In the backdrop of the assassination of Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti, the cabinet has decided to reshape the government’s counter-terrorism strategy and remove all the security loopholes to take more offensive measures against the terrorists, who have changed their strategy by adopting the new trend of target killings. The cabinet met with […]
ISLAMABAD: More or less two months after the assassination of Punjab governor Salman Taseer, Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti has lost his life in a well-planned attack for his alleged opposition to the misuse of the blasphemy law. The minister was shot dead just yards away from his motherÂ’s house in broad daylight […]
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and senior judges of the Supreme Court refused to take a closed-door briefing from the defence and interior ministers on the request of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and directed that if the government wanted to explain its stand on any matter, it should do so in the […]
LAHORE: Chief Justice (CJ) of the Lahore High Court (LHC), Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry, while hearing a petition against recent increase in POL prices on Wednesday, directed the petitioner to bring a copy of the impugned notification and an application which he claimed to have filed with the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA). The CJ […]
LAHORE: Chief Justice (CJ) of the Lahore High Court (LHC), Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry, while accepting an application on Wednesday, ordered to make clippings of foreign and local newspapers mentioning spying activities of Raymond Davis part of the court’s record. Judicial Activism Pakistan Chairman, Muhammad Azhar Siddique, who submitted the application, argued that clippings of different […]
By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court directed the government on Tuesday to immediately remove Federal Investigation Agency Director General Waseem Ahmed for allegedly continuing interference in the Haj scam despite restrictions imposed by the apex court two months ago. On this, the government’s lawyer Hafeez Pirzada informed the court that the fate of […]
By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD: The members of the `Q` and `N` factions of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) took their political battle from Punjab to the National Assembly on Monday with the PML-Q challenging Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to dissolve the provincial assembly and call fresh elections. Speaking on points of order in the National […]
LAHORE: Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa, on Monday, signed a summary sent by the provincial government for the removal of seven Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) ministers from the Punjab cabinet. A Governor’s House spokesperson said, “Seven PPP ministers would cease to hold the office after the summary was officially signed by the Punjab governor after […]
By Sohail Khan ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday suspended the decision of the Parliamentary Committee (PC), which denied one-year extension in service to two additional judges of the Sindh High Court, and restrained the respondents from issuing any notification in pursuance of the PC’s recommendations. A four-member larger bench, comprising Justice Mehmood Akhtar […]
KARACHI — The curtain raiser ceremony of “Faseel-e-Jaan Se Aagay,” a drama series jointly produced by ISPR and CRS, was held here at a local hotel the other day. Speaker of the Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmad Khuhro presided over the function, which was attended by media, social elite and celebrities. Speaking on the occasion, Khuhro […]
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